Instructor: Susan Wood This class will include a lecture and images on how clock mechanisms are designed and built, including the influence of the blacksmith in early clocks and tools. We will cover the evolution of escapements from foliot to pendulum to balance wheel. How sources of power influence the mechanism with weights springs fusee…

Instructors: Myron Hanson, Bill (the welder ©) Krawcjeski, Dick Carlson Maximum students: 12 Start as a new person to gas welding or improve your technique and safety with an oxy/acetylene torch. Myron has several teaching stations and, together with Bill the Welder© and Dick Carlson, has produced capable and safe welders for several years now. …

Instructors:  Martin Pansch, Larry Wasmund, Rick Wessling, Marty Masters, other exciting guest instructors to be determined later. Maximum students: 8, Minimum 4 Tongs, while deceptively simple looking, contain a lot of considerations in making them. They should fit the work, fit your hand, be long enough but not too long, sturdy enough but not too…

Instructor: Jesse Gavin (lead) supported by Dave Gavin, Herb Fick, and others Minimum 6 students; maximum 8 The tools made will be punches with a wire handles and chisels with wire handles. We will use treadle hammers. (Find out if you really need one of these by trying them.) Tools for the treadle hammers will…

Four sets of classes are held in Fall, Winter and Spring. All four sets of classes teach the same information. All classes for 2016-2017 are full.